Memories of the director’s former glories fade fast in a wayward, weirdly plotted serial killer B-movie that fumbles its crescendos and is frequently preposterous
Dario Argento’s return to directing after a 10-year absence has its moments of macabre and melodramatic invention – there’s a genuinely unsettling opening sequence – and a small, sympathetic role for his daughter Asia Argento. Maybe Occhiali Neri may in time be awarded its own minor cult status. But a lot of the time it is bizarre in the wrong ways, with clunkingly absurd plot transitions, sudden B-picture-type money-saving closeups on the mangled, bloodstained faces of people who’ve supposedly just been stabbed or hit, and Argento has some very odd ideas about how guide dogs for blind people are trained – like police dogs, or serial-killer dogs, they are, apparently, able to launch into an attack at a given signal.
It is Rome in summer,...
Dario Argento’s return to directing after a 10-year absence has its moments of macabre and melodramatic invention – there’s a genuinely unsettling opening sequence – and a small, sympathetic role for his daughter Asia Argento. Maybe Occhiali Neri may in time be awarded its own minor cult status. But a lot of the time it is bizarre in the wrong ways, with clunkingly absurd plot transitions, sudden B-picture-type money-saving closeups on the mangled, bloodstained faces of people who’ve supposedly just been stabbed or hit, and Argento has some very odd ideas about how guide dogs for blind people are trained – like police dogs, or serial-killer dogs, they are, apparently, able to launch into an attack at a given signal.
It is Rome in summer,...
- 2/11/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The Los Angles Times‘ billionaire benefactor Patrick Soon-Shiong dropped a bombshell today in his first meeting with the staff: that the newspaper would move from its historic building in downtown Los Angeles to El Segundo.
Soon-Shiong said the Times’ lease on the building expires in June, and that work already has begun on new editorial offices in the nearby second city, according to sources. The New York Times reported the relocation plans in a lengthy profile of newspaper’s buyer.
That disclosure set the newsroom buzzing:
Walked back into newsroom after Patrick Soon-Shiong announces @latimes will move to El Segundo — and everyone has Google Maps open on their screens, calculating new commute times.
— Kimi Yoshino (@kyoshino) April 13, 2018
The biotech entrepreneur, who is considered the richest man in Los Angles, offered to acquire The Los Angeles Times from Tronc for $500 million.
The sale has yet to close, though Soon-Shiong dismissed a...
Soon-Shiong said the Times’ lease on the building expires in June, and that work already has begun on new editorial offices in the nearby second city, according to sources. The New York Times reported the relocation plans in a lengthy profile of newspaper’s buyer.
That disclosure set the newsroom buzzing:
Walked back into newsroom after Patrick Soon-Shiong announces @latimes will move to El Segundo — and everyone has Google Maps open on their screens, calculating new commute times.
— Kimi Yoshino (@kyoshino) April 13, 2018
The biotech entrepreneur, who is considered the richest man in Los Angles, offered to acquire The Los Angeles Times from Tronc for $500 million.
The sale has yet to close, though Soon-Shiong dismissed a...
- 4/13/2018
- by Dawn C. Chmielewski
- Deadline Film + TV
A creator without an audience is subject to the 'tree falling in the forest' conundrum. If no one is around to read, watch, or comment, it is demonstrably difficult to make a sound, even with superior creativity and skills. Many new media companies have recognized the importance of reaching audiences, and at Social Media Week, one of those companies will join three media outlets for a panel titled 'Finding Your Voice, Finding Your Audience.' That company is Quora, which serves primarily as a question-and-answer service but also helps brands discover who is reading their content and how they like to read it. Quora Head of Product Marketing Alex Wu will sit on the panel alongside David Allan of BBC, Mark Hughes of Forbes, and Geri Hirsch of Leaf TV. La Times tech reporter Andrea Chang will moderate.
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- 9/19/2013
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
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